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Free clinics to help people understand planning applications will be held every three months, the Minister of Home Affairs announced. Walter Roban said the clinics would mean the public can get advice on planning regulations outside normal office hou...

Families affected by delays in payment of war veterans’ benefits will have their problems tackled “as a matter of urgency”, the Minister of Finance pledged last night. Curtis Dickinson said officials from the Department of Social Insurance would meet...

Proposed reforms to health benefits should not be examined to a tight deadline, an insurance industry leader warned. Peter Lozier, the executive vice-president of group insurance at Argus Group, said that “health reform of this magnitude and complexi...

A Bermudian film-maker is returning to the festival circuit soon with a new short film, supported by the Bermuda Arts Council. Rory Wilson wrote, directed, produced and acted in the short film Drop, which he has now submitted to film festivals around...

Nobel Prize-winning author and academic Toni Morrison was a “mesmerising” speaker 30 years after she visited the island to help mark the 150th anniversary of the Bermuda National Library. Ruth Thomas, a former government cultural affairs officer, sai...

One in three patients at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is diabetic, research from the Bermuda Hospitals Board has revealed. Now the hospital has stepped up its efforts caring for patients with the disease and launched an education programme to en...

A serial conman who defrauded his friends of thousands of dollars was jailed for three years yesterday and ordered to make reparations to his victims Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said Jonathan Ratteray had multiple chances to change his mind abo...

Competitors will dig in to the Bermuda Sandcastle Competition this month with a total of $3,500 in prize money at stake. A top prize of $500 will be awarded to the best sandcastle and a further $3,000 worth of cash prizes can be won across four categ...

Visitors to St George’s can meet characters from Bermuda’s 1775 Gunpowder Plot over the next few weeks. Several dozen men broke into an unguarded ammunition magazine above Tobacco Bay, St George’s, on August 14, 1775 and stole more than 100 casks of ...

Three police officers have passed a tough training programme to become bodyguards for VIPs. The officers, two women and one man, completed the close protection officers’ course. Four police officers from the British Virgin Islands also took part in ...